The poor and innocent María Mercedes must raise her family on her own. Her father is a drunk and her mother left her when she was a little girl (but her mother is always on her mind). A professional street urchin, she does whatever she has to do to keep food on the table and a roof over her family's heads, no matter how ungrateful they are. Santiago del Olmo is monstrously wealthy and has a beautiful mansion in the richest part of city. Although he is dying, he isn't in peace knowing that his villainous and money-hungry sister-in-law, Malvina, will be his sole heir. One day, Santiago is in the gardens when he spots Meche. A large proposal, a marriage, a will, and a conniving plan by a crazed Malvina will turn the lives of everyone in the house of del Olmo upside down - especially that of Jorge Luis, Malvina's tormented son with whom Meche falls in love.
Thalía .... María Mercedes Fernando Colunga .... Chicho Arturo Peniche .... Jorge Luis del Olmo Carmen Salinas .... Doña Filogonia Laura Zapata .... Malvina del Olmo Gabriela Goldsmith .... Magnolia Fernando Ciangherotti ....
Santiago del Olmo
Jaime Moreno .... Rodolfo
Luis Gimeno .... Sebastián
Luis Uribe .... Manuel Roberto Ballesteros .... Cordelio
Cordero Manso
Roberto Guzmán .... Teo 'El Jarocho' Aurora Molina .... Natalia
Virginia Gutiérrez .... Blanca
Carmen Amezcua .... Digna del Olmo Jaime Lozano .... Doctor Diaz
Héctor del Puerto .... Funcionario Héctor Gómez .... Chaplin
Julio Urrueta .... Napoleon
Silvia Caos .... Alma
Carlos Rotzinger Raúl Padilla .... El Chupes / Arturo
Manuel D'Flan
Irma Torres
José Luis González y Carasco
Agustín López Zaveta
América
Vanessa Angers .... Berenice
Meche Barba .... Chonita
Sylvia Campos .... Diana
Rosa Carmina .... Rosa
Carlos Corres
Marcela Figueroa
Arturo García Tenorio .... El Latas / Rogariano
Paola García Diana Golden .... Fabiola Mayerling Sanroman
Alfredo Gutiérrez
Alberto Inzúa .... Lic.Mario Portales Lucero Lander .... Karen
Arturo Lorca
Rebeca Manríquez .... Justa
Enrique Marine Nicky Mondellini .... Mística
Irlanda Mora .... Paz
Erika Olivo Rossana San Juan .... Zafiro
Evangelina Sosa .... Candy
Cuco Sánchez .... Genaro Marco Uriel
Xavier Ximénez Rafael del Villar .... Ricardo Karla Álvarez .... Rosario
Victor Vera .... Juez Registro Civil
Paquita "La del Barrio" .... Paquita Ari Telch .... Carlos Urbina David Ostrosky
Elia Domenzain .... Directora del colegio
Jeanette Candiani Patricia Navidad .... night club dancer Flavio Peniche
Ricardo Vera
Lina Michel
Writing credits
Inés Rodena (original story)
Carlos Romero (adaptation)
Vivian Peztalozzi (adaptation)
Rosario Velicia (script editor)
Maria Luisa Solis M. (script co-ordinator)
Song: Maria Mercedes Written by: Viviana Pimstein Singing:Thalía
Produced by
Valentín Pimstein
Carlos Sotomayor (on location in NY)
Salvador Mejía (associated producer)
Televisa
Trivia
"Maria Mercedes" is a remake of:
1 version: telenovela "Rina"
2 version: telenovela "Rubi Rebelde" (Venezuela, 1989) with Mariela Alcala
Further remake of "Maria Mercedes" is telenovela " Inocente de ti "
There is a Venezuelan version called "La italianita" with Marina Baura and Raul Amundaray.
This was the first leading role of Thalía, then followed two other parts of a trilogy: "Marimar" and "Maria la del barrio"
Tormenta en el Paraíso
In the year 1519, the Mayan priest Ahzac discovers that his daughter, Ixmy, has given herself to the love of a white man; she was destined to be sacrificed as a gift to the gods along with some gifts made of gold and with a black pearl of similar size. The maiden, having avoided her fate, invokes Ahzac's fury, who then invokes a curse upon the black pearl, saying, " Whoever has this pearl in their possession will never be able to know what happiness is!"
Rostro de Analía, El
Mariana Montiel is a young and beautiful executive at the head of
ANGEL'S, the executive airline founded by her father. She has been
skilled and very shrewd in business, though her personal life is a
completely different story as she has not known how to protect the
thing she most cares about: her own marriage.
The poor and innocent María Mercedes must raise her family on her own. Her father is a drunk and her mother left her when she was a little girl (but her mother is always on her mind). A professional street urchin, she does whatever she has to do to keep food on the table and a roof over her family's heads, no matter how ungrateful they are. Santiago del Olmo is monstrously wealthy and has a beautiful mansion in the richest part of city. Although he is dying, he isn't in peace knowing that his villainous and money-hungry sister-in-law, Malvina, will be his sole heir. One day, Santiago is in the gardens when he spots Meche. A large proposal, a marriage, a will, and a conniving plan by a crazed Malvina will turn the lives of everyone in the house of del Olmo upside down - especially that of Jorge Luis, Malvina's tormented son with whom Meche falls in love.
